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| Official website | |
| Founded | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Editions | 128 (2024) 94 Grand Slam events (since 1925) |
| Location | Paris, XVIth arrondissement France |
| Venue | Stade Roland Garros (since 1928) Societé de Sport de Île de Puteaux, at Puteaux (1891–1894); Tennis Club de Paris, at Auteuil (1895–1908); Société Athlétique de la Villa Primrose at Bordeaux (1909); Croix-Catelan de Racing Club de France at the Bois de Boulogne (1910–1924, 1926); Stade Français at Saint-Cloud (1925, 1927) |
| Surface | Clay – outdoors[a] (1908–present) Sand – outdoors (1892–1907) Grass – outdoors (1891) |
| Prize money | €53,500,000 (2024) |
| Men's | |
| Draw | S (128Q) / 64D (16Q)[b] |
| Current champions | Carlos Alcaraz (singles) Marcelo Arévalo Mate Pavić (doubles) |
| Most singles titles | Rafael Nadal (14) |
| Most doubles titles | Roy Emerson (6) |
| Women's | |
| Draw | S (128Q) / 64D (16Q) |
| Current champions | Iga Świątek (singles) Coco Gauff Kateřina Siniaková (doubles) |
| Most singles titles | Chris Evert (7) |
| Most doubles titles | Martina Navratilova (7) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Draw | 32 |
| Current champions | Laura Siegemund Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
| Most titles (male) | Ken Fletcher / Jean-Claude Barclay (3) |
| Most titles (female) | Margaret Court (4) |
| Grand Slam | |
| Last completed | |
| 2024 French Open | |
The French Open (French: Internationaux de France de tennis), also known as Roland-Garros (French: [ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁos]), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam tennis events every year, held after the Australian Open and before Wimbledon and the US Open.
The French Open begins in late May and continues for two weeks.[c] The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator Roland Garros.[1]
The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world and the only Grand Slam tournament currently held on this surface. Until 1975, the French Open was the only major tournament not played on grass. Between the seven rounds needed for a championship, the clay surface characteristics (slower pace, higher bounce), and the best-of-five-set men's singles matches, the French Open is widely regarded as the most physically demanding tournament in tennis.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
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